Re:Re: [Kile-devel] A.Mani: Patch, etc

[Jeroen W. <Jer...@kd...>]

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 23:09, A.MANI wrote:
> >Patch : The patch was correctly installed. When I tried to repatch
> >the source files it spoke of overwriting 2 particular files.
> >
> >
> >Speed of compilation: I meant it was slow(>25 min) in comparison to
> >most other packages(<3 min)...the code is ofcourse of high complexity.
> >(I assembled my i86 system with a VIA Cyrix 800Mhz
> >CPU,128MbRAM...it is quite fast on all the nine OS installed). 'gmake'=
 or
> > 'smake' may help...but that is another department.

Kile has about 30.000 lines of code (half of it in the GNU plot frontend =
lib),=20
I doubt you can compile that many lines of code in less than 3 minutes on=
=20
your system. Some packages may compile faster, but that's is because they=
 are=20
probably a lot smaller! For example, compiling KDE takes many hours. It i=
s=20
unreasonable to expect large apps to compile as fast as small ones.

> >Features: The following features will be useful in particular for
> >mathematicians and logicians:
> >1. Texnicenter-style (the best latexIDE for the dreaded OS)
> >customisability of toolbars...it requires more than two mouse-clicks f=
or
> >say \varsigma in Kile.

You mean: adding a button to a toolbar that will insert \varsigma in the=20
source (or any other LaTeX tag)? I will keep that in mind.

> >The width of the panel on the left can also be reduced.
> >2. The lower panel must also be minimisable.

You can resize it, just like the left panel. To hide the lower panel, des=
elect =20
Settings->Show Messages View.

best,
Jeroen
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